Dražen (Cyrillic: Дражен) is a Croatian and Serbian masculine given name. It is derived from the common Slavic element drag (meaning "dear, beloved"), and was originally a diminutive of names beginning with Drag-.
Notable people with the name
Dražen Anzulović (born 1967), Croatian basketball player and coach
Dražen Bagarić (born 1992), Croatian footballer
Dražen Besek (born 1963), Croatian football player and manager
Dražen Biškup (born 1965), Croatian football player and manager
Dražen Bogopenec (fl. 1306–1307), Croatian nobleman
Dražen Bolić (born 1971), Serbian football player
Dražen Bošnjak, Bosnian-American composer and sound designer
Dražen Bošnjaković (born 1961), Croatian politician
Dražen Brnčić (born 1971), Croatian football player and manager
Dražen Bubnić (born 1986), Croatian-Slovenian basketball player
Dražen Budiša (born 1948), Croatian politician
Dražen Dalipagić (1951–2025), Serbian basketball player and manager of Bosnian-Herzegovinian origin
Dražen Erdemović (born 1971), Bosnian soldier and war criminal of Serb and Croat descent
Dražen Funtak (born 1975), Croatian sprint canoer
Dražen Gović (1981–2022), Croatian football player
Mirko Dražen Grmek (1924–2000), Croatian and French historian of medicine
Dražen Janković (1965–2018), Serbian musician and actor
Dražen Katunarić (born 1954), Croatian poet and novelist
Dražen Kekez (born 1995), Croatian footballer
Dražen Kovačević (born 1974), Serbian comic book author
Dražen Kühn (born 1965), Croatian actor
Dražen Kutleša (born 1968), Croatian Catholic prelate
Dražen Ladić (born 1963), Croatian football player and manager
Dražen Lalić (born 1960), Croatian sociologist
Dražen Luburić (born 1993), Serbian volleyball player
Dražen Madunović (born 1971), Croatian footballer
Dražen Marović (born 1938), Croatian chess player
Dražen Međedović (born 1982), Montenegrin footballer
Dražen Mužinić (born 1953), Croatian football player
Dražen Okuka (born 1986), Serbian footballer
Dražen Perković (born 1963), Croatian taekwondo practitioner
Dražen Pernar (born 1971), Croatian footballer
Dražen Petrović (1964–1993), Yugoslav and Croatian basketball player
Dražen Pilčić (born 1989), Croatian footballer
Dražen Podunavac (born 1969), Serbian footballer
Dražen Prćić (born 1967), Serbian Croat novelist
Drazen Prelec (born 1955), Croatian-American economist and university professor
Dražen Ričl (1962–1986), Bosnian rock musician and comedian of Czech and Bosniak descent
Dražen Šćuri (born 1962), Croatian military commander
Dražen Sermek (born 1969), Croatian chess player
Dražen Silić (born 1985), Croatian bobsledder
Dražen Vuković (born 1981), Croatian footballer
Dražen Zečić (born 1967), Croatian singer-songwriter
Dražen Žerić (born 1964), Bosnian singer of Bosniak descent
Dražen Žeželj (born 1976), Slovenian footballer
Dražen Zlovarić (born 1989), Serbian basketball player and coach